Sharp Unveils Glass Computer

thug writes "Moscow Times: Sharp Corp., Japan's largest maker of liquid crystal displays, unveiled a screen Tuesday with microprocessor circuitry applied directly onto the glass, enabling it to function like a computer. Shumpei Yamazaki, president of unlisted Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Ltd., Sharp's partner in the project, compared the challenge of putting processor circuitry on glass to "building a skyscraper on rubber." But he said glass offered several advantages over silicon, including lower temperatures for production, so that faster metal gates could be used for its transistors."

Comments

I see a connection.

[WilliamsDA]

Sharp... glass computer. Does anyone else see the connection?

Re:I see a connection.

[poot_rootbeer]

At least it's not a Philip Glass computer. Those things only execute endless loops!

Chips on glass?

[Mocenigo]

I want to see them melt. You can make nice sculptures melting glass: I was born not too far from Venice, and I have seen how they do it in Murano. Overclocking will be then rightly called a form of art.

Re:Yet another dubbel post

[OrangeSpyderMan]

There are some stories that everyone wishes they posted - and the great thing about slashdot is that everyone can! :-)

uh hunh

[Easy2RememberNick]

Well I have a short attention span anyway, I didn't even notice.
Maybe they're trying to be like CNN Headline news, the same thing over and over and over and over... ..what was I talking about?

Sharp's Glass Computer

[Anonymous Coward]

Computing on the cutting edge of technology!

Re:Sharp's Glass Computer

[hype7]

Computing on the cutting edge of technology!

Oh come on, it's just a PR stunt. I'm surprised you didn't see right through it.

-- james

Re:Yet another dubbel post

[MikeDX]

*Bad actor mode*

"Yes, I can see the case mods.. now. casserole pc, coke bottle pc, fish tank pc"

Also known as how to whore karma from yesterdays Funny mods :)

This is all part of the karma system

[bLanark]

How many times have /. rejected your write-up of a story and posted an inferior version instead? (Generally for one with unneccessary urls like the home page of the news site as well as a link to the story on the news site; who can't edit out story.pl?artid=423423 to get to http://www.site.com/ ?)

Well, this is the payback. Simply note a good story, and try and slip it past /. submission editors a few times to make them look like dweebs. (Hey, has anyone managed to get the same story three times?)

It also gives you a chance to steal those insightful comments from the first article post and max out on karma without getting "-1 redundant", so we all can win! - Last to +5 insightful is a dinosaur egg!

Whoah

[gvonk]

This repeat was predicted by ari_j.

Weird.

Though, you could say that for every article and have a pretty good success rate.

Re:Yet another double post

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm just waiting for karma whores to go mine for +5 posts... *sigh*

Redundancy on multiple levels

[Arti]

Is it just me, or are there an awful lot of cries of 'redundant'? One would have sufficed...

To all complaining of the repeat post...

[GMontag]

People who use glass computers should not throw flames ;-)

Re:Old News?

[OrangeSpyderMan]

Yeah, hats off to the guys at Sharp R&D - only yesterday they were announcing a glass computer. Err, hang on a minute.

Re:no it isnt

[OrangeSpyderMan]

It's slashdot's take on release early, release often. :-)

Practical applications

[BluBrick]

One of these devices is already being used to mirror slashdot.

Re:Yet another dubbel post

[BoBaBrain]

Clearly there has been a breakdown in communication between the "beef-jerky-based-computing-to-follow" department and the "good-enough-to-lick" department.

Its not a repeated story....

[GnomeKing]

Yesturday, they were looking from one side of the glass, today we're obviously looking from the other side

/. logic

[CaptainPhong]

while (1) {
foreach $story (@pending_stories) {
next if is_stupid($story);
next if ms_is_good($story);
next if postgres($story) > mysql($story);
cream_shorts() if content($story) eq 'vapor';
(drool() && next) if content($story) eq 'pr0n';
push @repeat_stories, $story if iq($editor) < 80;
post($story);
}
@pending_stories = (@repeat_stories, get_new_stories(@kuhlest_slashdotters));
}

For those who are bitchin'

[KH]

Don't you people see what's going on here?

CmdrTaco already has this computer on a glass thing. With the help of three pre-cogs, he uses this machine to see what will happen in the future (a la Minority Report). He saw that this story was going to be posted today.

He posted the story yesterday to predict what is going to happen, at the same time to brag that he has this computer-on-glass.

Got that?

Sharp unveils glass computer...

[42forty-two42]

...will gain new meaning when you drop it :)

Acronym?

[n8willis]

The company's name is Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Ltd., and it's unlisted? Why, did they think investors would be put off from purchasing a stock whose ticker symbol was SELL?

I can't think of a better company...

[Alethes]

than one called Sharp to release a glass computer.